Solaris
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- soh-LAIR-is
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #6,799 for boys
Solaris is a name of Latin origin, meaning “of the sun”. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).
What does Solaris mean?
Latin: Latin word
“of the sun”
Latin for 'of the sun'; also the title of Stanislaw Lem's 1961 science-fiction novel.
Is Solaris a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Solaris has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls and 12 boys in the US.
How popular is Solaris in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,799among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 140,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Solaris, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 15 boys. It first appears in the records in 2016. 8 girls were also named Solaris in 2025 (10,913th for girls).
Half of all the boys named Solaris in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Solaris in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,799 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,771 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,616 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,739 |
Nicknames for Solaris
- Sol 52 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Solaris
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Sol Moses Amos Santiel Juancarlos Thiago Marquez Lucius Alonzo Amaris Jupiter Ares
More Latin names
Oliver Olivia Leo Roman Aurora Emily Florence Mabel Luna Nora Rosie Emilia Max Nova Lucy Julian
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Solaris: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/solaris, updated 20 October 2026.